Rucio Meeting

Thursday 28 May 2026, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Martin Barisits (CERN)

15:00 → 15:05 News

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• Guilherme leaving Rucio project, moving to other tasks
  • Thanks a lot for all the contributions!
  • Consistency Checking component: Fabio (alone)
• June meeting schedule
  • Jun-04
  • Jun-11
  • Jun-18
  • Jun-25
• June release schedule
  • Jun-10 40.3.0
  • Jun-22 40.4.0
  • Jun-29 35.8.6 LTS (Might be delayed by 4 weeks)
  • Jun-29 38.5.6 LTS (Might be delayed by 4 weeks)
• New sprint bot from next week on
  • Not needed to manually answer to the post (unless you have a comment)
    • Sprintbot now reads Mattermost reactions & GH sprint board
  • Start of Sprint, Monday morning: React to Sprint announcement with the number of days you want to participate (Or NO if you do not participate)
  • Start of Sprint, Monday afternoon: Sprint bot will remind everyone with priority issues in the sprint who have not submitted a plan yet
  • Start of Sprint, Tuesday morning: Sprint bot posts overview of planned sprint
  • End of sprint, Friday afternoon: Sprint bot shows overview of achievements
  • This makes the Sprint Master role redundant, will stop that

15:05 → 15:25 Community News & DevOps roundtable

• ATLAS
  • Canceling rule with lots of requests takes LONG
    • Bulk deletion interface in FTS might help
• CMS
• Fermilab DUNE / RUBIN / ...
  • Paramiko issue #8566
    • Needs investigation
• DUNE Edinburgh
• INFN
  • Check about multipart s3 with gfal
• RI-SCALE
  • Cross site TPC transfers tests continue
• MADDEN / ETAP
• CTAO
  • -> 40.2.0 
    • Checking if this solves the issue with the stacked rules
• IHEP

15:25 → 15:55 Developers roundtable

• Reflection about ongoing Sprint 3 (Sprint Board) [Dimitris]
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• PR review sprint/marathon
  • 40 -> 36
  • Goal is to get to 25 :-)
• Rucio 41 priority followup
  • Todo
    • XL: Convert RSE availabilities from a boolean to an enum #6660 [Ben, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • M: Datasets erased through the Reaper do not produce any messages #8022 [Ben]
    • M: Old WebUI OIDC must not use Host header for authentication flow #8473 [Ben]
    • S: Rucio WebUI authentication cookie without HttpOnly flag #8475 [Ben]
    • L: Create a new API endpoint for the clients to request tokens #6638 [Dimitrios, Reviewer: Martin]
    • M: Implement new token authentication for download #7029 [Dimitrios]
    • XL: Rucio support for full-structure metadata #8011 [Dimitris, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XS: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Configclient`) #513 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • XS: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Ruleclient`) #529 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • XS: npm_and_yarn dependabot jobs failing #123 [Francesc]
    • XS: Cannot authenticate to account with given credentials [x509 proxy] #98 [Francesc]
    • L: Token refresh after expiration #73 [Giovanni]
    • L: Prevent multiple Reaper threads from working on the same replicas #6512 [Hugo, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • L: Make scope optional in all API endpoints using scope + name information #8196 [Maggie, Reviewer: Max]
    • L: allow wildcard * on a scope level for list_dids #6070 [Max, Reviewer: Mario]
    • M: Let metadata plugins implement `get_metadata_bulk` #7324 [Max]
    • XL: Permission Management based on the server side Policy #739 [Mayank]
    • XL: Replace Env Generator Tool and EnvConfigGateway with Zod Schema-Based Env Validation #753 [Mayank]
  • In Progress
    • XL: Fixing dependency management #8500 [Ben, Reviewer: Martin]
    • XL: Fix flaky tests #8270 [Ben, Reviewer: Dimitris]
      • rse_expression cache invalidation 
        • Not trivial to do due to local cache in production, in testing we can look into it
    • M: Replace some "add" and "update" CLI commands with "set" #8547 [Maggie, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • S: Remove SRM and GridFTP protocols #8497 [Maggie]
    • XL: Finalise CLI command structure #8349 [Maggie, Reviewer: Dimitrios]
    • XL: [EPIC] UX improvements (Target 22) #621 [Mayank]
    • XL: Feature Flags Subsystem for Page/View Enablement #752 [Mayank]
    • XL: Simplify what we run on CI (test suites, OS, Python versions, DB, …) #7965 child of #7667 [Mayank, Reviewer: Ben]
  • In Review
    • M: remove auto feature for oidc auth #8318 child of #7310 [Anil]
    • XS: Wrong documentation for `dids/scope/name/files` call #8053 [Dimitris]
    • S: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Rseclient`) #528 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • S: Rucio Python Client docstrings enhancement (`Accountclient`) #509 child of #363 [Dimitris, Maggie]
    • M: Do not use regex to split did, use scope extraction method #7519 [James]
    • M: Schema values overridden in policy package are not picked up unless at top level #7731 [James]
    • M: rucio upload does not check that the user has permission to add DIDs #6058 [James]
    • M: Generate "Configuration parameters" documentation page automatically, to avoid mismatches between documentation and code #325 [Maggie]
    • M: Change mixed prometheus_client and probe_metric approachs to use PrometheusPusher #129 [Maggie]
    • S: Make loaded CLI options configurable #8494 child of #8349 [Maggie]
  • Done
    • S: Improve Juptyerlab extension operator guide #768 [Giovanni]
    • XL: Test stability on LTS branches #7964 child of #7667 [Karan, Reviewer: Martin]
  • Delayed
• Other discussion
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15:55 → 16:00 AOB